Things to actually do in ED?

Jimbodiah

Jimbodiah
I love the idea of the game, I love all the ships and outfitting. Right now I have 500M in the bank, all the ships I want and all the modules engineered to levels where they are acceptable to me for the purpose I use them for. But there lies the problem: what to use it for.


While I was grinding for resources I used my Asp, Orca and now Krait.

Flew passenger missions in my conda when they had the 100M/hour trips.

Flew my iEagle and iCourier with data missions in those 1-hop systems to rank up in both Empire and Federation.

Flew the FDL and Vette for combat missions when I was in a wing and to unlock the engineers.



Now that they are engineered and I no longer need materials, I'm kind of pressed on what to do next. I sold my Cutter as I have rebought that thing three times now just to have it but had it sitting in some station's storage locker. I have the conda, vette, T10, sold the Cutter and Beluga and have 12-15 smaller ships that I like to fly.



Combat: I'm not into PVP, too many hassles and egoes. Repetetive as heck.

Bounty hunting: Hunting in hazres or conflict zones with a Vette or FDL isn't that challenging so gets tedious after a few hundred kills. I don't need the money either.

Exploring: Tried it, jumped out the window screaming. I live on the ground floor so that didn't even hurt. So tedious: same planets every system. Don't need the credits and have my name on a few hundred ELW, WW and Neutrons already.

Engineering: Mostly done for the ships I think of as keepers. So basically no need for resource gathering anymore.

Power-Play: Yeah... No!

BGS: Yeah... nah. No longer in a wing, so pointless.

Mining: Please kill me now!



What do you guys do when you have all the ships and all the money so there's nothing left to grind for?
 
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BromeTeks

BromeTeks
Join up with a community to do powerplay and BGS. Doing them on your own blows, but if you're working with huge numbers of friends, and contribute to the strategies, it's quite engaging! Most of the major PP groups have discord servers associated with them.
 

DanGriswold

DanGriswold
I am in the exact same spot you are. 700M in the bank, all the ships I want, and no reason to really grind my way to anything. So, for the time being (or until some major new feature drops), I float around from system to system and just enjoy the view. Luckily I'm an astronomy nut, so doing not much more than floating aimlessly in a very picturesque system is enough....for now....
 

dribnairb

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Have you tried hunting Thargoids? I spent a lot kitting out a Krait to hunt a Cyclops. Lost quite a bit on rebuys too :) But now got 5 kills to my name. It's great fun.
 

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AFAIK there's extremely little things to do once "end game" is reached.
Since there's no Sandbox to build "your own Castle" or combine Sandbox elements to create something new, the Options are very limited.

The only ways to break out I know of :
- group up to work for a common goal (the "game" and entertainment evolves outside of the actual game and you give the handful of possible activities a new purpose)
- go heavy into RolePlay and pursue a distant goal if that's your thing
- Explore and seek new Galactic Records
- work to fill up crowdsourced lists (i.e. ELWs or Guardian Sites)
- PvP as the good or bad or funny guy in town

If none of those work for you though.... the best answer is : play something fun while waiting for Future Content(tm) to materialize after a new Patch and then check it out.
 
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Gun Star

Gun Star
I do all the stuff you listed still and have a fleet of 17 ships. I'm constantly trying new loadouts and traveling around trying to find a new home that was just as awesome as my last or better.

I also take regular breaks from the game. I'm back playing FO4 and Skyrim SE again now.

I'll hope on usually 2-3 times a week still doing some mining, trading, and Haz Res hunting. I think its time for another Colonia trip.
 

dubsdj

dubsdj
100 mil in the bank, own most ships and engineered to an acceptable level. What do I do now? Just drive around aimlessly on baren planets hoping that I might find something of interest. I think exploration is the only thing left to do really.
 

EUS

EUS
He already threw himself out his window. Are you trying to kill him? Or at least give himself a boo-boo?
 
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